Good point. This is pretty common in other parts of the world where there are large numbers of impoverished people. The Philippines and India are both examples of this. Both of them are a large part of the common labor pools in the Middle East. If you go to place like Saudi Arabia you’ll see tons of Filipinos doing all of the manual labor on construction sites. They’re also well entrenched in the cruise ship industry as well.
Go work in a rich country, send money home, make a very good living and support your family in a manner they could never have if you worked there. Bail when necessary. -D > On Apr 30, 2020, at 4:35 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I think thats very common, especially with Asian immigrants. My mother worked > with a Filipino lady who's husband was in a nursing home. She was waiting for > him to die so she could go back to the Philippines. She loved her husband but > didn't particularly love the US and wanted to go home. > -Curt > > On Thursday, April 30, 2020, 4:17:19 PM EDT, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > For what it is worth, I also suspect that a lot of our immigrants come > here because they see it as a way to make a buck, but ultimately they do > not want to be here and hope they make enough to retire "back home". > > RB > > On 30/04/2020 1:27 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> I agree with you wholeheartedly, Grant. >> >> Growing up around my paternal grandfather, who at that time had been in the >> country for nearly 50 years and a citizen for 25-30 years, I got to see an >> individual and the community around them and how they embraced the “American >> dream/way/whatever”. Grandpa was the epitome of the patriotic immigrant - >> Mother, apple pie, baseball, etc. Heck, he could have been the poster child. >> The community he lived in was nearly 100% immigrants, mostly from eastern >> Europe, speaking a common (first) language of Greek. Every one of them was a >> hard working, hard core American, despite being firmly rooted in their >> former culture. They voted, actively participated in local government and >> community, and had a deep commitment to their community and it’s members. I >> can’t ever recall them saying anything about “how much better it was in the >> old country”. >> >> Many of them, like my grandfather, were very prosperous business owners who >> built their businesses up from the ground with nothing more than sweat >> equity. I know that at the peak of his business career my Grandpa owned >> three taverns and at least one bowling alley. The whole time he had these >> businesses he was still working first shift at Granite City Steel! I have no >> idea of what his personal wealth was, but I have to believe it was >> substantial based on his business holdings. You wouldn’t know it from seeing >> his house or personal possessions. Much the same with his fellow business >> owners. A good example of this is when they decided they needed their own >> Orthodox church. They petitioned for a priest, got one within about a year, >> and in another year had built a beautiful church, paid for 100% by the >> community. I’m sure Grandpa wrote a big check for that. >> >> Anyway, my point is that while he and his community were proud of their >> ethnicity and culture and practiced it regularly, it didn’t overshadow their >> love for the country and desire to be Americans. They assimilated, learned >> the language and trafficked easily with everyone else in the area regardless >> of their country of origin or ethnicity. >> >> While I’m not totally comfortable with a “national language” requirement, I >> think the approach that a lot of countries like the Nordic ones have towards >> immigrants - if you want to come here you have a fixed time to learn our >> language. They also provide the resources to do so, which I also think is >> important. >> >> -D >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
